Skip to Main Content
IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

Status Future consideration
Categories Test Execution
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 28, 2023

Test Suite Execution Order into Test Plan

The current random behavior while adding the existing Test Suite(s) with correspondent Test Case(s) into a Test Plan seems to not be the desired one.
Unfortunately, the Execution Order inside of a Test Suite should be taken into consideration while adding this Test Suites into a Test Plan. The importance of the order is priority and should not be optional, like in this case (cross-check with the ISQTB Procedure Scheduling)

For example, we have two test suites with cases:

  • Test Suite "A": TC 1, TC 2, 3

  • Test Suite "B": TC 7, TC 8, TC 9

Adding this Test Suites (A and then B) into Test Plan, our desired behavior should be:

  • Test Suites: "A", "B" (in order)

  • Test Cases Order: TC 1, TC 2, TC 3, TC 7, TC 8, TC 9

In ETM, in Test Case section we will have this behavior:

  • Test Suites: "A", "B" (they will be ordered correctly)

  • Test Cases Order: TC 3, TC 1, TC 2, TC 9, TC 7, TC 8 ( or other random values)

We know you have a normal order while trying to run this Test Suite(s) into Test Plan, but we use the REST API and this order of Test Cases (from TP section) is essential for our frameworks to work properly.

Picture description by steps:

  • adding_suites_into_test_plan -> Add Existing Test Suite

  • incorrect_oredered_ids_2 -> Test Suite(s) data (test cases execution order)

  • incorrect_oredered_ids -> Test Cases Section from Test Plan ( test cases ids seems to be mixed up randomly and not kept in the same order as in Suite)

Idea priority Urgent
Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)